Who Doesn’t Like Free Movies? Not Us!

For those of us used to bombing up and down 5th Street to avoid the stoplights and foot traffic of 4th Street SW, be prepared to hold your horses, bucko. Northbound lanes will be closed from March 26th to 28th, 2018, and 5A Street SW will be closed March 29th to 30th in both directions, affecting your ability to avoid the “no left turn” off northbound 5th onto Royal Avenue during peak afternoon traffic. Water line and fire hydrant work are the given reasons.
To make your life even more amusing, The Red Mile, 17th Ave SW, will be completely closed at Western, between 5th Street and College Lane, from April until done, with a break for Stampede. And yeah, that mess from last year closing 17th along the stretch with the Shell station and the Ship will return until at least the end of June.
Don’t let all this construction wind you up though, drop into the Perk for a nice, cool Mocha Shake and shake it off. Yes, we went there… 😉
The Cliff Bungalow Mission area offers plenty of distractions. The Mission stretch of 4th Street SW alone has numerous bars, restaurants and coffee shops full of shiny things and shiny people to catch your attention. But what if you just want a social night out, and don’t want to get tipsy or wired while doing it? Well, the ever-busy Cliff Bungalow-Mission Community Association has Board Game Night once a month, usually on the third or fourth Saturday. You are invited to bring your favourite board games, or just show up and play someone else’s. Haul along your own snacks, or bring some from the Perk, and beverages are cheap, which all in all makes for an inexpensive and entertaining Saturday night out. You don’t need a membership, and there’s no cover charge, so get out and get your dice (or cards) a-rollin’!
TANSTAAFL. There Ain’t Nothin’ So Tasty As A Fresh Launch!
I hope you don’t mind us riffing on an old saying, but that’s just how we roll!
We are proud, pleased, and pumped to pronounce the Purple Perk is pushing out a presumptuously pert presentation of our presence online. The first of March marks the soft launch of our revamped webiste. The old site was fabulous, fine and fully dated. Not the “hot time at the Perk last night” dated, the “dayamn that looks so pre-smartphone” dated. Now it is all-new and improved! With new-car smell!
We rejigged it to be easier to navigate on the phone or a computer, prettier to look at, funnier to read, and for the first time, capable of taking your catering orders online. So please poke around and see what you think. Here’s our regular menu, here’s our catering menu, here’s where you can find out more about us, and here’s where we are.
Welcome to our new home on the web. Cheers!
Those Sufis were really something, weren’t they!? We have them to thank for the wonderful blessing that caffeine is in our lives. And here at the Purple Perk we have plenty o’ permutations! Please peruse, ponder, pick and pounce. Just don’t procrastinate!
To go with your drinkipoos we have snackipoos. Tasty little treats that ensure your sweet tooth doesn’t feel neglected while you choke down the bitter, bitter truth of recognition. This is your life, and it needs sweets!
You didn’t wake up until 3 in the afternoon. Who are we to judge? All we want to do is serve you breakfast, so come on in and we’ll help brighten you right up!
Honestly, what kind of kitchencafé (what the heck is that anyway?) would we be if we didn’t have scrumptious sides and sassy starters? The wrong kind, that’s what, and we’re not!
No one can agree on the origin of the hamburger, but North America definately perfected it, and ours is pretty good. No ground Emu or anything, but pretty good. Try one, go on, ya know ya wanna…